By: Patterson S.B. No. 653
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the exemption of persons having an active interest in
1-2 legislation and the results of administrative action from
1-3 registering with a state entity.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 305.004, Government Code is amended as
1-6 follows:
1-7 Section 305.004 Exceptions
1-8 (6) a person whose only compensation subject to
1-9 Section 305.003(a)(2) consists of reimbursement for any wages not
1-10 earned due to attendance at a meeting or entertainment event,
1-11 travel to and from the meeting or entertainment event, admission to
1-12 the meeting or entertainment event, and any food and beverage
1-13 consumed at the meeting or entertainment event if the meeting or
1-14 entertainment event is attended by a member of the legislative or
1-15 executive branch and if the total cost of the meeting or
1-16 entertainment event is paid by a business entity, union, or
1-17 association; <and>
1-18 (7) a person who communicates directly with a member
1-19 of the legislative or executive branch on behalf of a political
1-20 party concerning legislation or administrative action, and whose
1-21 expenditures and compensation, as described in Section 305.003,
1-22 combined do not exceed $5,000 a calendar year; and
1-23 (8) a member of a chamber of commerce who only seeks
2-1 to communicate with members of the legislature or executive branch
2-2 to influence legislation or administrative action on behalf of
2-3 another member of the same organization.
2-4 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect on September 1, 1993.
2-5 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-6 condition of the calendars in both houses create an emergency and
2-7 an imperative public necessity that the constitutional rule
2-8 requiring bills to be read on three several days in each house be
2-9 suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.